Musk is delaying Twitter’s paid verification to avoid Apple’s 30 percent cut

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9 points·yabatopia··9 comments

Apple’s tax has been in effect for years, but apparently is enforced inconsistently. Also there are two EU investigations into their practices. Apple has been fined for billions before.

Yes, Apple's well-known 30% revenue sharing cut has been around for a long, long time.

It's not a "tax."

Calling it one is a shibboleth which declares your allegiance to Musk's marketing.

People have called it a tax long before Musk bought Twitter. And once you buy an iPhone, it's yours, so you shouldn't have to pay Apple 30% of all financial transactions you ever conduct with it.

Once you buy a car, it’s yours, so you shouldn’t have to pay gas companies 100% of all fuel transactions you ever use to drive it anywhere.

Apps are the lifeblood of a smartphone. Everyone who buys an iPhone knows they’ll be spending money on apps too, and the 30%, or 15%, or free or whatever is hardly a secret to those that care about it.

There's a case for Apple taking a cut on app sales themselves. There's a lot less of a case for them taking such a giant cut of sales within the apps.

Obviously they can, but in my opinion it's an absurdly high cut.

The manufacturer of your car doesn't get a 30% cut of the price of the fuel it uses.

>Calling it one is a shibboleth which declares your allegiance to Musk's marketing.

Nope. This is a very long running thing, Musk is just the current high profile face of it.

You are right.

It's still not a tax.

So, they're giving up their revenue to deny someone else's theirs?

I'm of the opinion that the 30% should have dropped quite a bit a while back, and the terms should be more favorable to the devs, but still...

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